POSING QUESTIONS ON POSING BEAUTY: A CONVERSATION WITH DEBORAH WILLISDeborah Willis, University Professor and Chair, Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York UniversityJoin us for a conversation with Deborah Willis, award winning MacArthur Fellow, artist, curator, professor and eminent scholar in the history of Black photography, and Jade […]
Main Topic: Police and Prison Reform Art Focus: DramaDiscussion: Police and advocacy led by Danielle Chanzes, community organizer and activist.Interactive Skit: Facilitated by Kindra Walker, a fine arts director, writer of modern theatrical and cultural plays and skits.Lunch: Catered by Flavorful Afro Fusion Catering Co.
CAME is proud to serve as a main sponsor of this year's Afro Roots Festival. The event will feature a series of music and dance workshops, lectures and performances on April 7 and 8 - all with a touch of Afro-Cuban provenance. IMPORTANT: Ticket Prices range from $15-$150 for the first day workshops. Day 2 will be a concert held at Bo […]
Mark your calendars for the release of 10,000 Memories: A Lived Partition, a volume based on the 1947 Partition Archive. This collection of crowdsourced stories documents the first and largest pan-South Asian oral history survey ever conducted. Project Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla, will discuss the process of empowering people to record […]
Fleeting Imaginaries: Master of Fine Arts Candidates Exhibition II presents mixed media installations featuring painting, sculpture, performance, and AI-inflected video that grapple with the paradoxical nature of a contemporary world that simultaneously isolates individuals and conglomerates masses. These artists contemplate the (im)possibility of escape through an exploration of fleeting realities and manifested connections.Featuring works by […]
Have you been looking for an opportunity to connect with others across the university and in our community that are engaging in community-responsive research and programs? Do you want to increase our collective capacity to be good stewards in our community? Faculty, students and staff all have a role in this work. You are all […]
FASHIONING RACIAL REVOLUTION: THE SIGNARES IN GORÉE AND SAINT-LOUIS Anne Lafont, Directrice d’études, EHESS, l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris Could it be that in the geographical conception of art developed in Enlightenment Europe, the primary role and the function of the so-called Black Continent was one of ornament? Or, on the contrary, […]
Critical community conversation about domestic abuse and addiction.How dance and music can be used to heal.Peaceful Paths will be conducting a presentation on domestic violence, quiet intervention, trauma informed advocacy, resources, and shelters.Workshops and performances by local musicians and choreographers including Purple Kloud, Dominique Revell, and Essence Thomas.Lunch Provided.
Through painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance, Noah Kellough investigates an alternative lens through which to see the world. The Goober dimension exists in the humdrum moments and everyday spaces around us. To see into it just requires taking a good, close look. The Goober dimension imagines an alternative place to exist within. It locates the […]
The UF Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship invites you to an evening of reflection, ideas and conversation as we celebrate the culmination of the center's inaugural Maker in Residence, Qudus Onikeku. Qudus's innovative, multidisciplinary work begins at the intersection of culture, performance, and technology before asking us to consider what happens when we step outside […]